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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A sawmill at Wright City huffs and puffs to turn out the boards in 1939, spreading a pall of smoke over the countryside."

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Photograph of John Golombie, Chickasaw Czarina Colbert Conlan, and Choctaw Joseph Oklahombi at Oklahombi's home near Wright City, Oklahoma. The photograph was taken by Hopkins of Idabel, Oklahoma on May 12, 1921.

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If one believed only the visions of the silver screen, all lumber mills are in the great Northwest run by hardy lumberjacks with Nordic features."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The logs are reduced to the finished boards stacked for shipment, as well as plywood and chips for producing paper pulp."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The once-proud pines are brought in by truck from the forests, where they are unloaded by huge mechanical stackers whose giant claws pile, straighten and prepare rough timber for the myriad of saws inside the mill."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DOUBLE PLAY is scored by Dierks Division of Weyerhaeuser Co. at Wright City in southeastern Oklahoma, where unfinished lumber serves as makeshift flagpole and railroad crossing sign post."

Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If one believed only the visionsof the silver screen, all lumber mills are in th great Northwest run by hardy lumberjacks with Nordic features."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tive forests in McCurtain, Pushmataha and Leflore counties, the mill, in one form or another has been in existence since the turn of the century when it first provided the framework for a new state."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some of the first dollars RGM earned as a 14-year-old boy, came while we worked as a sawdust boy at a sawmill during summer school vacation periods."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "But amidst the great forests in southeastern Oklahoma is a 375-acre lumber mill run by the Weyerhaeuser Co. known as the Wright City Complex."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weyerhaeuser purchased the plant in 1969, expanding it until the approximately 1,000 mill workers now produce nearly 160 million board feet of lumber per year for Oklahoma, Texas and parts of the Midwest, as well as Colorado and New Mexico."

Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weyerhaeuser purchased the plant in 1969, expanding it until the approximately 1,000 mill workers now produce nearly 160 million board feet of lumber per year for Oklahoma, Texas and parts of the Midwest, as well as Colorado and New Mexico."

Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The logs are reduced to the finished boards stacked for shipment, as well as plywood and chips for producing paper pulp."

Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The once-proud pines are brought in by truck from the forests, where they are unloaded by huge mechanical stackers whose giant claws pile, straighten and prepare the rough timber for the myriad of saws inside the mill."

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